Device in easels for carrying pictures



Nov. 28, 1950 N. A. NILSSON 2,532,030

DEVICE IN EASELS FOR CARRYING PICTURES Filed Dec. 13, 1945 N/L6 ApR/A/V M4650 By m1- Patented Nov. 28, 1950 7 DEVICE IN EASELS FOR CARRYING PICTURES Nils Adrian Nilsson, Stockholm, Sweden, assignor to Aktiebolaget Wilh Becker, Stockholm,

Sweden Application December 13, 1945, Serial No. 634,710 In Sweden July 2, 1945 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a device in easels for carrying pictures. Known constructions of this kind consist e. g. of holders, sleeves or the like which are adapted to be displaced up and down along the two front legs and which by wing nuts can be clamped in the desired position. A simple solution has also been to make suitably spaced holes along the front sides of the two front legs. Hook members for carrying the pictures have been inserted at the desired height in these holes. It is clear that these constructions are very primitive and that they do not at all satisfy the just claims on a good easel. The greatest drawback is that the said constructions consist of loose parts which are difiicult to fit and which are often lost.

These drawbacks are eliminated by the device according to the invention, which is characterised by a pivot carrying a two armed lever, the said pivot being a pin located in front Of the sleeve and. carried by extensions on the same, one arm of the said lever, which arm is somewhat longer than the distance of the pivot from the arm, being adapted to snap into holes, grooves or the like in the leg, and the other arm of which is to carr the pictures, is adapted to support against an edge, flange or the like supported by the sleeve in the position carrying the pictures. When the sleeve is moved upwards or downwards along the leg, the arm of the lever is withdrawn from the hole in which it was inserted, and slides along the leg until the sleeve is in front of the desired hole, whereupon the said arm snaps into the hole, due to the action of the other longer arm of the lever.

An embodiment of the carrying device according to the invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawing, in which: Fig. 1 is a side view of an easel and Fig. 2 shows the carrying device on a larger scale.

The reference numeral 2 designates the telescopic legs, the parts of which can be locked to one another by suitable means.

The legs are in their upper portions hinged to a sleeve 3. placed up and down between the two front legs. The said standard carries two arms 5 which are provided with holding teeth 6 for the pictures or the like.

The holding device can of course be of any desired shape.

According to the invention a sleeve I is dis- A standard 4 is adapted to be displaceable on each of the front legs 2. At some distance from the leg, the sleeve is on its front side provided with a pivot pin 8 carried by projections l5 on the sleeve. The pivot pin 8 carries a two-armed lever, one of the arms 9 of which is somewhat longer than the distance between the said pivot and the said leg, the lever being adapted to snap into the leg in holes or slots [0 arranged at suitable distances from each other, as described above. The other arm II, which is to carry the pictures, is adapted to rest against a flange, projection o the like l2 carried by the sleeve 1 in the position carrying the pictures when they are clamped between the arms I l and 5.

The reference numeral 13 indicates locking de-- vices for the telescopic leg parts and the reference numeral l4 indicates sliding sleeves.

The invention is not restricted to the illustrated embodiment, but the details can be varied in many ways without going beyond the scope of the invention. The lever can be rod shaped or made as a plate.

Having now described m invention, what Iv claim as new and desire to secure by letters patent is:

A device in easels for carrying panels of the kind which has a. sleeve arranged on each slot ted front leg of the easel and being displaceable along said leg, comprising projections on said sleeve, a pivot pin in front of said sleeve carried by said projections, a flange carried by said projections, a two-armed lever carried by said pivot pin, one of the arms of said lever being somewhat longer than the distance between the pivot pin and the leg and being adapted to snap into the slots in the leg, and the other arm is arranged to support the panel and rests on the said flange in the position in which the panels are carried.

NILS ADRIAN NILSSON.

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